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Advance in Energy Materials for Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 3915

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Swastika Banerjee

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India
Interests: computation for battery materials; capacitors; charge carrier transport; catalysis
Dr. Jinjun Ding

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Guest Editor
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA
Interests: material informatics; information storage materials; quantum materials; spintronics materials; energy materials; nanotechnology
Dr. Hanmei Tang

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Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA
Interests: material informatics; energy material; first-principle simulations
Dr. Zhuoying Zhu

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Guest Editor
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Interests: computational materials science, Alkali-ion batteries

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Increasing energy demand is now a critical issue for everyone due to the critical relationship between energy, environment, and sustainability. Now we have to face the damage caused to the environment, such as rising global temperature due to the extensive fossil energy comsuption, and the shortage of energy, especially the cost-effective, sustainable, and clean energy sources. These issues have greatly motivated the ground-breaking research and advancement of materials for energy applications, which contribute significantly to the global decarbonization and more reliable energy storage to address the world-wide supply issue.

This Special Issue aims to be a collection of both theoretical and experimental contributions to renewable energy materials and advanced energy storage and conversion applications. Original research articles, communications and reviews are welcome! Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Energy storage and energy conversion, such as batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, etc.;
  2. Synthesis and characterization of energy materials;
  3. Data-driven energy material design and materials theory;
  4. Electonics, optics and photonics;
  5. Energy efficient computing, such as data storage materials and devices;
  6. Novel materials and nanotechnology, such as topological materials and devices.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Swastika Banerjee
Dr. Jinjun Ding
Dr. Hanmei Tang
Dr. Zhuoying Zhu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • energy storage and conversion
  • battery materials
  • metal (Li/Na/K)-ion batteries
  • solar cell
  • materials science
  • electrochemistry
  • nanotechnology
  • catalysis

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Ideal HTLs May Open the Door for Further Development of Sb2Se3 Solar Cells—A Numerical Approach
by Mamta, Raman Kumari, Rahul Kumar, Kamlesh Kumar Maurya and Vidya Nand Singh
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10465; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310465 - 3 Jul 2023
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Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) material has been brought into sharp focus in the solar cell field due to its remarkable performance in recent times. Solar cell efficiency increases daily because of the excellent properties of Sb2Se3 material [...] Read more.
Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) material has been brought into sharp focus in the solar cell field due to its remarkable performance in recent times. Solar cell efficiency increases daily because of the excellent properties of Sb2Se3 material and progressive optimisation of each layer, especially the hole-transporting layer (HTL); it suppresses the recombination of the back surface and increases the built-in potential and efficiency. In this work, we used Sb2Se3 as an absorber layer and compared the behaviour of typical hole transport materials (HTMs) (Spiro-OMeTAD, CuSCN, and CuI) and their influence on device performance. The Sb2Se3 photovoltaic model with different HTMs was studied by SCAPS (version 3.3.10) software. Efficiency is highly influenced by light source and intensity. Thickness and defect density of the Sb2Se3 layer, the work function of the back contact, and series and shunt resistances also play an essential role in the better execution of solar cells. The performance of the device is enhanced when the transmission percentage increases at the front contact. The metalwork function must be 5 eV to attain a highly efficient PV cell, and after optimisation, CuI is the best HTM with a 23.48% efficiency. Full article
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Natural Biomass-Derived Porous Carbon from Water Hyacinth Used as Composite Cathode for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
by Otong Nurhilal, Sahrul Hidayat, Dadan Sumiarsa and Risdiana Risdiana
Sustainability 2023, 15(2), 1039; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021039 - 5 Jan 2023
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We have successfully prepared porous carbon from water hyacinth plants using several steps, i.e., carbonization, activation, and calcination processes. Water hyacinth porous carbon is an alternative as a carbon material due to the ease and low cost of the manufacturing process, abundant raw [...] Read more.
We have successfully prepared porous carbon from water hyacinth plants using several steps, i.e., carbonization, activation, and calcination processes. Water hyacinth porous carbon is an alternative as a carbon material due to the ease and low cost of the manufacturing process, abundant raw materials in nature, and its contribution to solving environmental problems. Utilization of water hyacinth weed plants as raw materials for porous carbon will provide added value to water hyacinth. In this research, porous carbon is used as the host material of sulfur in the electrodes of lithium sulfur batteries. The N2 adsorption desorption characterization showed a porous carbon surface area of around 642 m2/g and a total pore volume of 0.713 cm3/g. The sulfur content of the composite electrode of C/S 1:2.5 (%w/w) was 60.6%. The four-line probe (FLP) testing showed electrical conductivity of porous carbon of around 3.93 × 10−2 S/cm and the electrical conductivity of the composite electrode was around 5.4 × 10−4 S/cm. Furthermore, the composite electrodes were applied as cathodes of lithium sulfur batteries, which have thicknesses around 200 µm and sulfur loading of 3.57 mg/cm2. The highest discharge capacity of the battery was 312 mAh/g and the Coulombic efficiency was around 70%. Full article
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